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I was just listening to one of my favorite tracks by Billie Joel, We did'nt start the fire:
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, "The King and I" and "The Catcher in the Rye"
Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye
CHORUS:
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser aand Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
Roy hn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, dacron
Dien Bien Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock"
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev
Princess Grace, "Peyton Place", trouble in the Suez
CHORUS:
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"
Lebanon, Charlse de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide
Buddy Holly, "Ben Hur", space monkey, Mafia
Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo
CHORUS:
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land"
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
"Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say
CHORUS:
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
"Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Rock and roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore
CHORUS:
We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on...
The way the world is, I wonder if anything changes much, the countries are different, the faces and countries are different but the problems we have don't really change much. I wish we could all live together in peace; is it too much to ask?
Sue
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I somewhat agree
But the question is ultimately how do we go about it? As for the song, I wish someone would update and add to it and make it a longer song by either adding to what came before or since. ah well, just another pipe dream...
Hugs hon
Diana
I think ...
... Billy Joel himself added another verse in one of his live albums. I could be wrong but I seem to remember a verse that mentions Gorbachev, Tiannamen Square and the fall of the Berlin wall.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Too much?
> I wish we could all live together in peace; is it too much to ask?
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> Sue
Too much to ask? No. Too much to expect? Pretty much.
Living together in peace requires the cooperation of everyone involved. If only one party doesn't want to live in peace, then there will be no peace -
until that party is no longer able to disturb the peace.
It would seem that reasonable people could agree that peace is better, but some people are not reasonable. They only want peace if the price is your servitude. On the other side, some people are not willing to be slaves. If one attempts to force servitude upon them, they will - rightly, in my view - resist.
As long as there are those who will not respect the right of others to live peacably, there will be no peace. I wouldn't expect that the supply of such folks will dwindle anytime soon. And the rest of us will have to choose between conflict or slavery.
Deni
No it's not too much to ask.
As one of the planners of the first peace marches in San Francisco (early 1960s) it's hard to look back and see how little peace we have achieved, especially in the United States. This country now spends more on military armaments, wars, bases etc. than the rest of the world combined. I have sat through the Korean, Vietnam and Gulf Wars. When I was a child it was World War II.
It's hard not to be discouraged, but from time to time I meet people who have sacrificed their careers and normal lives to put themselves on the line to stop the wars. It's because of their courage that I keep my hope alive.
marie c.
marie c.
Given the squabbles
that happen amongst a supposed 'community' with common objectives, as on this website, it's quite easy to see how wars start. Thankfully, Erin has more effect than the UN, maybe she could become the next Secretary General - on her days of from here? ;)
hugs.
Angharad
Angharad
But, but, but...
I was going to nominate you :)
Never let it be said that I don't enjoy the occasional delusion of grandeur
Never let it be said that I don't enjoy the occasional delusion of grandeur